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The Gremlins; From The Walt Disney Production
by Dahl, Roald
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Near fine/very good. The first edition of The Gremlins by Roald Dahl, in the publisher's scarce illustrated dust jacket.. Quarto, [52pp]. Red cloth spine, title in black on spine. Vibrant pictorial boards and illustrated endpapers. No additional printings mentioned. Solid text block, light rubbing to corners, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $1.00 retail price on front flap, sunned spine, short closed tears along top edge. Archival tissue repair to verso to stabilize the hinge at the spine. A bright example of a scarce dust jacket. Complete with twelve full-page color illustrations and a color frontispiece. The Gremlins was Roald Dahl's debut novel, and his only one to be initially published by Random House. The story describes the experience of a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot whose plane is damaged by a gremlin - a folkloric creature imagined by 20th century military members to explain odd faults in machinery. The RAF pilot convinces the gremlins to unite against the common enemy of Hitler and the Nazis. This book was originally designed by Walt Disney Productions to be released in tandem with a full-length animated film of the same story, but the film was never made.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14879
- Title
- The Gremlins; From The Walt Disney Production
- Author
- Dahl, Roald
- Illustrator
- The first edition of The Gremlins by Roald Dahl, in the publisher's scarce illustrated dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Roald Dahl signed, first edition Roald Dahl, first edition Charlie Chocolate factory, first edition fantastic Mr. fox, signed book fantastic Mr. fox, the Gremlins Dahl, first edition matilda Dahl, James giant peach Dahl,
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- Rubbing
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- Verso
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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